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Windows 7: Creating a recovery partition - Windows 7

Recent disk crash on my Samsung has been the nightmare of all nightmares. The replacement drive has no recovery area setup, so cannot install the recovery software and thus recover from a backup made with it!

Either I spend a fortune at a Samsung service centre, or try one shot at recreating it.

So, my question is....

How do I create a partition WITHOUT a drive letter, with the Volume labelled as "RECOVERY"?

I suspect that this is not possible, but if it is, how then do I change the status to EISA configuration?

Creating a recovery partition - Windows 7

Creating a Custom Recovery PartitionHello,
I have recently installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on my Qosmio, installed all the drivers and necessary system utilities and programs that I wanted. Now, that took me a good few hours and quite a bit of effort. So, I thought of a way to prevent myself from having to do exactly the same...

Backup and Restore

help creating a recovery partition for hotkey restoreHey,
I am not sure if this is possible however is there a way of installing Windows 7, activating it with my OEM key and then created a recovery partition just in case I am ever in the situation where I need to run it using a hot key during boot?
Cheers

Installation & Setup

Creating a Media-less Recovery / Installation PartitionAfter purchasing my new Student Version of Windows 7 Professional I was keen to do a full system format, and start fresh. I no longer had a need for the Dell Recovery Partition which contained Vista (and a decent amount of bloatware), so I removed all partitions from my disk to start with a blank...

Installation & Setup

Problem w/ creating recovery disc in Recovery ManagerI am running windows 7 on my laptop. I has windows vista before the upgrade. I had recovery discs for windows vista created from the recovery manager. I tried to make discs for windows 7. I would like to know why it won't let me make a disc for windows 7 because if I had trouble and needed to put...

Performance & Maintenance

Problem in creating new partition or Volume in windowsIn my dell studio 1555 I inadvertently delete some registry files so through PC restore I have reinstall win 7 Home Premium .
I have got the problem in creating new Volume.
Before PC restore process I have already made 142 GB as "Free Space" and 146 GB in C:/ Drive of 320GB SATA HD.
Now...